Bret Biørnstad Planning and Organizing for a Student Centered Year - Literacy Lensesliteracylenses.com - MaryAmyJenn by Brent GilsonIf you missed the chat or want to relive it here is a link to the Wake In my first year of teaching, I remember a coworker teaching her …
Bret Biørnstad Make Curiosity Your Best Friendtwowritingteachers.org - Lanny Ball As a new teacher, I sometimes made assumptions about my students that may not have been based in reality. Of course, this is human to do so. We all …
Bret Biørnstad Spelling in a Writing Workshoptwowritingteachers.org - Marina Rodriguez The truth… I’d rather not talk about spelling. There are more important things in a writing workshop, than to talk about spelling. Spelling well is a …
Bret Biørnstad The Importance of Establishing Routines: Nurturing Independence from the Starttwowritingteachers.org - Stacey Shubitz There are some routines that are more important to teach than others during the first six weeks of school. In the midst of building classroom …
Bret Biørnstad Routines and Structures of Writing Workshop: Nurturing Independence from the Starttwowritingteachers.org - BethMooreSchool In this post, I'll describe how four parts of writing workshop can foster independence: Minilessons, Independent Writing Time, Partner Time, and the …
Bret Biørnstad Approximation vs. Mastery: Nurturing Independence from the Starttwowritingteachers.org - Lanny Ball As our students write this year, it will be important for us to remember that they are still learners, and as such, they will be approximating. It …
Bret Biørnstad The Importance of Starting Practice with WHY: Nurturing Independence from the Starttwowritingteachers.org - Marina Rodriguez How often do we ask ourselves about what leads our thinking on the teaching of writing? Is our purpose curriculum, or something much more …
Bret Biørnstad Reading is a Forever Thing by Brooks Spencerwordpress.com Posted by CBethM on August 3, 2019 in Pay It Forward | Leave a comment As part of a High School English conversation, a couple of teachers were …
Bret Biørnstad A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writingcultofpedagogy.com This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no …
Bret Biørnstad Helping Students Read By Choosing The Right Literacy Strategyteachthought.com - by Early on in my career when I first took on the challenge of incorporating more literacy into my instruction, I was unsure of how things were going to …
Bret BiørnstadIcon version of the Flipboard logo Teach Students to Read Like Detectives (Book Review)educatorstechnology.com - Educatorstechnology This week's featured book is that authored by Frey and Fisher titled "Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives: Comprehending, Analyzing, and …
Bret Biørnstad Q & A: How do book clubs work in a Readers-Writers Workshop classroom?threeteacherstalk.com - Amy Rasmussen Book clubs, or literature circles as some like to call them, can be a real bonus when it comes to not only getting some students to read, but in …
Bret Biørnstad “Reading Logs Should Be Tools for ‘Students to Spy on Themselves'”edublogs.org - Larry Ferlazzo Reading Logs Should Be Tools for ‘Students to Spy on Themselves’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column.In it, Jennifer …
Bret BiørnstadPedagogy A Workshop Approach to Whole-Class Novels: A Returnthreeteacherstalk.com - Shana Karnes Join us for a summer series revisiting our top posts from this school year, and please “turn and talk” with us in the comments section each week!This …
Bret Biørnstad Making Reading Posters and Promotions Interactive With FlipgridAR!vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com One of the BEST things shared at ISTE was by our friends at Flipgrid and Microsoft. Among lots of AWESOME updates and additions they shared at …
Bret BiørnstadTeaching Q & A: How do I know what mini-lessons to teach? #3TTWorkshopthreeteacherstalk.com - Amy Rasmussen When I first started trying to implement readers-writers workshop, I was the master of the quickwrite and pretty much nothing else. It wasn’t until …
Bret BiørnstadPedagogy Taking The Stigma Out Of Learning With Immersive Readerweb20classroom.org - Steven W. Anderson I love to read. If I am not working or spending time with my daughters I am reading. But when I was in elementary school reading was what I dreaded …
Bret BiørnstadTeaching Q & A: How do I do this on my own without other colleagues teaching this way? #3TTWorkshopthreeteacherstalk.com - Amy Rasmussen Believe me when I say I understand. Completely. I think many other teachers who took off the old shoes of making all the choices in their English …
Bret Biørnstad When a List Is More Than Just a List by Kirsten LeClercwordpress.com - CBethM A few years ago I wrote a Nerdy Book Club post that was widely shared and (mostly) well received. It was titled “Windows, Mirrors, and Portals to …
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Bret BiørnstadGeek Read an Excerpt From War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi's Black Panther-Inspired Sci-Fi Adventureio9 - Cheryl Eddy Black Panther is a fantastic movie for so many reasons—one being that it made certain people notice there were already so many sci-fi and fantasy …
Bret Biørnstad On Reading Rewardspernillesripp.com - Pernille Ripp He finally found a book he liked.She actually has a book she wants to read over summer.He read more books than he ever has before.She tried a new …
Bret Biørnstad Positioning Tier 1 as Our First Line of Intervention Defense - Literacy Lensesliteracylenses.com - MaryAmyJenn On 5/23/19, we launched the first of a five-week #G2Great chat series: Rethinking Our Intervention Design as a Schoolwide All-Hands on Deck …
Bret Biørnstad Fine Motor and Beyond: How To Support Underlying Skills for Writingtwowritingteachers.org - kelseycorter What makes the physical and visual process of writing challenging? Read to find out how an occupational therapist collaborated with a classroom …
Bret Biørnstad Three Things to Try in Writing Workshop Before the End of the School Yeartwowritingteachers.org - BethMooreSchool Three things you maybe never thought of trying - add them to your writing workshop bucket list for the school year!
Bret Biørnstad 10 Reasons Why Spelling Is A Step Too Far!teachertoolkit.co.uk - Lynn How Reading Time: 4 minutes Children don’t need to know how to spell, do they? I am not averse to the teaching of spelling. IThe post 10 Reasons Why …
Bret Biørnstad The Key to Close Readingalicekeeler.com - erin I am not an expert in close reading but have tried a variety of methods and approaches. What I discovered is that when I have a great essential …
Bret Biørnstad Book Trailer Project Step-by-step Guideenglishteaching101.com Book Trailer Project is a digital storytelling activity for middle school or high school students after they finish reading a book. Students need to …
